Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous